Power lines : electricity in American life and letters, 1882-1952 /
Lieberman, Jennifer L.,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: power lines -- Mark Twain and the technological fallacy -- Shock and sensibility: the rhetorics of electric execution -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's human storage battery and other fantasies of interconnection -- The call of the wires: Jack London and the interpretive flexibility of electrical power -- Ralph Ellison, Lewis Mumford, and the hope of a technological humanism -- Conclusion: the power of lines.
Electrification
Electric power
Technology in literature
American literature